作者：DanielKeyes
出版社：MarinerBooks
出版年：2004-6-14
页数：311
定价：GBP6.99
装帧：MassMarketPaperback
ISBN：9780156030083
内容简介
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With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance-until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?
An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly, Flowers for Algernon now returns to Harcourt as a Harvest paperback.
作者简介
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Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. At age 17, he joined the U.S. Maritime Service as ship's purser. He obtained a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, and after a stint in fashion photography (partner in a photography studio), earned a Master's Degree in English and American Literature at night while teaching English in New York City public schools during the day and writing weekends.
In the early 1950s, he was editor of the pulp magazine Marvel Science Fiction for publisher Martin Goodman. Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton. From 1955-56, Keyes wrote for the celebrated EC Comics, including its titles Shock Illustrated and Confessions Illustrated, under both his own name and the pseudonyms Kris Daniels, A.D. Locke and Dominik Georg.
The short story and subsequent novel, Flowers for Algernon, is written as progress reports of a mentally disabled man, Charlie, who undergoes experimental surgery and briefly becomes a genius before the effects tragically wear off. The story was initially published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the expanded novel in 1966. The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom. He also won the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966.
Keyes went on to teach creative writing at Wayne State University, and in 1966 he became an English and creative writing professor at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, where he was honored as a professor emeritus in 2000.
Keyes' other books include The Fifth Sally, The Minds of Billy Milligan, The Touch, Unveiling Claudia, and the memoir Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey.
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想给50星。读过的最好的故事之一。那么多层面的精彩。不单单是一个低智者获得高智力的故事，重点是智力与人性的关系。也隐喻了人类与智慧的关系。以及世态人情。后半部分渐渐失智的过程，惊心动魄，因为坦白讲，每个人都要经历失智（除非早夭），程度深浅，速度快慢而已。因此，这是一本写给每个人的书。然后，它也是不折不扣的科幻，它回答了一个假设：如果一个低智者在短期内获得高智力，会发生什么。
这真是一个充满恶意和向下鄙视链的世界。想自己尽量不做其中之一
Kindle到最后一页了我还不敢相信。有声书一共有147个文件，最后一个文件是版权和其他有声书的广告。直到146个文件结束，我还期待有奇迹呢。凌晨一点看完，躺在床上把发光的Kindle扣过去，恐惧得不能入眠。起身去卫生间，看着镜子里年轻的脸和乌黑的头发觉得一切都是虚幻。Charlie所面对的，也是所有人要面对的。常常从这样的故事中挣扎出来，觉得自己如此年轻，健康，幸运，然而一切都会消逝。
The author's ability to present Charlie's different language style as he moves from being a moron to a genius, and then backwards again, is impressive. Original as the story is, the last quarter of th…
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